Separable fastener.



PATBNTED MAY 2, 1905.

M. LINDNER. I SEPARABLE FASTENER.

APPLIUATION TILED SEPT.19,1904.

NTED I STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

SEPARABLE FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,781, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed September 19, 1904.. serial No. 225,049.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MAX LINDNER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Reuth, near Neumark, Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Separable Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to fastening devices or clasps for ladies dresses, which consist generally of a skirt and waist. Garments thus divided into two parts have always offered great difficulty to keep them in place, the skirt showing the tendency to slide down by its own weight and the waist sliding up, thereby exposing the underwear. Devices to obviate this inconvenience have been employed with more or less success.

The object of the present invention is a clasp being so curved that it fits well to the a body, and therefore prevents a separation of the coacting parts. This clasp is formed of two hook-plates having the hooks secured on the plates or stamped out of the metal in such a way that one hook is on the outside of the plate and the other hook is projecting on the inside.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification and illustrating the improved fastening device, Figure 1 is a hookplate to be secured to the waist. Fig. 2 shows the hook-plate to be secured to the skirt. Fig. 3 shows both hook-plates in engagement.

The plate a is bent or curved corresponding to the curvature of the body of a woman above the hips. A broad hook 6 is stamped out of the metal or otherwise produced and secured on the plate a in such a manner that the curvature of the hook is parallel to the This plate is prefcurvature of the plate b.

erably secured near thelower edge of a waist on the outside of the waistband, and the hook b is on the convex side of said plate. The other plate, (Z, is bent similarly, but has the hook c on the concave side either stamped out of the metal or secured thereto in a convenient manner.

The hook c is bent reversely to the hook b that is, downwardly-while the hook 6 is directed upwardly.

The plate (Z is secured on the inner side of the waistband of the skirt. One or several clasps formed by the described plates may be employed on the garments, and they can also be used in dresses where the waist falls over the top edge of the skirt. In such instance of course the plate (Z must have the projecting hook on the convex side and would be sewed on the outside of the skirt, while the plate a would have the hook t on the concave side and would be sewed on the inside of the Waistband.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A fastening device consisting of two coacting hook-plates of thin metal adapted to be fastened respectively to the waist and to the skirt of a dress, both plates being slightly bent in conformity with the curvature of the human body around the hips and both plates having broad hooks bent parallel to the curvature of the plates, the hook on one plate being on the convex side and the hook on the other plate being on the concave side, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MAX LINDNER.

In presence of-- F. HEPHAN, SOUTI-IARD P. WARNER. 

